Bio:
 
Zhenhai Zhu received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He was a Josef Raviv 
Memorial
Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 2004 to
2005. He joined Cadence Berkeley Laboratories as a Research Scientist 
in
July, 2005. 

He is a recipient of IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla 2005 ICCAD Best Paper
Award for his work on fast stochastic integral equation solver. At MIT
he also developed FastImp, a public-domain fast impedance extraction
code, and pfft++, a public-domain fast integral equation solver. 
FastImp
is generally considered as the state-of-the-art academic solver for the
high-frequency analysis of 3D interconnects. The code pfft++ has been
used to solve various partial differential equations in different
engineering applications, such as computational aerodynamics,
bio-molecular simulation and drug design, and computational
electromagnetics.

His research interests focus on the development of efficient numerical
methods for modeling and simulation of high frequency electronic
systems. Current research projects include variational model order
reduction, statistical timing and lithography simulation. 
 
He lives with his wife and son in the city of Alameda. He likes to jog
or bike along coast line, work out in gym and play table tennis and
badminton. He was a leading player and co-captain of MIT table tennis
team.